Magyar Öregdiák Szövetség - Bessenyei György Kör
Hungarian Alumni Association
Post Office Box 174
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA

Rutgers Institute for Hungarian Studies

American Hungarian Foundation

present

George Szirtes

HUNGARIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH

experiences and reflexions
of the poet-translator of Imre Madách's "The Tragedy of Man"

Saturday , March 27, 2004 at 7:00 PM
Hungarian Heritage Center
RUTGERS STUDENT CENTER, Room 411 ABC
126 College Ave., NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

George Szirtes, born in Budapest in 1948, lives in England since the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Teacher, lecturer, he has published sixteen volumes of his poems and prose and an extensive number of articles, essays and book introductions in Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, China and Australia, and was honored by numerous literary prizes.

One of the most published translators of Hungarian literature, his English versions include works by many outstanding modern Hungarian writers such as Sándor Csoóri, Zoltán Jékely, Dezsô Kosztolányi, László Krasznahorkai, Gyula Krúdy, Sándor Márai, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Ottó Orbán, István Vas and Sándor Weöres as well as the nineteenth century epic drama by Imre Madách: "The Tragedy of Man".

All are invited!

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Information: 732-846-5777

Donation requested